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8 Jul 2021 1 minute read 4 comments ALTERdapp
Decentralized Finance: The Global Financial System For Everyone Decentralized finance (commonly referred to as DeFi) is a blockchain-based form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks...
5 Jul 2021 4 minute read 3 comments ALTERdapp
CAN STRANGERS REALLY SPY ON ME THROUGH EMAIL? Invisible pixels used to track email activity are now an "endemic" issue that breaches our privacy. Analyzing a request from the BBC was discovered that roughly two-thirds of emails sent to its users' pr...
2 Jul 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Matthew Rosenquist
I am honored to join the United Cybersecurity Alliance advisory board. This organization is focused to improve the cybersecurity industry by driving and celebrating equity, inclusion, and equality for a diverse workforce that possesses the skills t...
2 Jul 2021 1 minute read 15 comments Cje95
When Brave released the Brave 2.0 roadmap included in it was a rather interesting thing. They were going to launch their own privacy-focused search engine. This really went along with the suite of applications they have been working on that are much...
30 Jun 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
I've just dropped DuckDuckGo like a hot potato, uninstalled the plugin, reported it to Mozilla (and recommended they look at promoting Presearch instead), filled out the "uninstallation survey", signed up with Presearch, added PRE to my Atom wallet,...
29 Jun 2021 11 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This is not an MRA post. I happen to like The Matrix and Alice in Wonderland for unrelated reasons. I wasn't even aware of what an MRA was at the time of writing. This piece was originally written as an email in April 2020. Following a webinar hosted...
29 Jun 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
TIL: DDG, which purports to "respect your privacy", is not actually a search engine; it's a meta search engine/search aggregator. It also doesn't do what it claims to. The app/"engine" sources material from Bing, Stack Exchange, AWS and other places...
28 Jun 2021 1 minute read 3 comments ALTERdapp
We often see that surveillance is a good thing, at least that’s what our governments are telling you, for their own selfish reasons. What is surveillance? When law enforcement agencies and government entities want to gather information about a crime...
27 Jun 2021 7 minute read 1 comment Status Community Updates
How can we design networks that allow for clients to show up with small amounts of data, contribute to the network, and for those contributions to be meaningful?– Piper Merriam We are delighted to announce that Nimbus will be joining the Ethereum Fou...
25 Jun 2021 11 minute read 0 comments Publishing Ox
Recently I saw an advertorial for Crypton (CRP) token, and their eco-system which claims to be a privacy focused, decentralised platform offering anonymous browsing, domain name services, crypto wallet and even a mining offering for its users. I'll a...
